"optic" = seeming "narrative" PLUS "Wall Street"

[Baker, John M.]

        I think that, for many decades before 2008, "Wall Street" meant
"large investment banks," of which Goldman Sachs was and is perhaps the
premier example.


John Baker


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Subject: "optic" = seeming "narrative" PLUS "Wall Street"

CNN reports that that the Goldman, Sachs investigation "is part of the
optic
that was developing during [the economic crash]." The optic is that
"Wall
Street" is evil, everybody else is good.

Not only that, but the SEC investigation "plays into the whole optic of
Wall
Street versus Main Street."
BTW, before the end of 2008, "Wall Street" meant the stock market. It
did
not ordinarily include/ mean "huge business corporations, especially
banks."

JL

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